Whole French Coal Industry Threatened by Communist-led Strike
(Rec 10.10) LONDON, October 1. Sixty-two per cent, of the miners in the Noriihern France coalfields voted in favour of a’ strike on Monday says the Daily Telegraph’s Faris correspondent. The strike is being* planned by the Communist controlled C.G.T. in protest against the Government decrees making economy cuts in surface personnel and introducing penalties for unjustified absenteeism. They claim that the strike will paralyse the entire French coal industry. The Minister of Industry and Commerce, M. La Coste, last night broadcast an appeal to the miners not to strike, saying that a, stoppage would be in opposition to the measures which had been asked for by public opinion. "The decrees against absenteeism, he added were aimed at the parasits amang the' miners who threatened to discredit the nationalised industry.
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Grey River Argus, 2 October 1948, Page 5
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